But if I believe that I can become beautiful, I become an economic subject. My desire becomes a marker. - Tressie McMillan Cottom

When you are vulnerable and on the losing end of a power dynamic, all you can hear of that kind of direct, unsolicited feedback is how — despite all of your hard work — /you are still doing everything wrong./

With the privilege to read and to think comes great responsibility.

that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that ugly is as ugly does. Both are lies. Ugly is everything done to you in the name of beauty. Knowing the difference is part of getting free.